CHIRAL SYMMETRY-BREAKING WITH THE CURTIS-PENNINGTON VERTEX

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ATKINSON, D
GUSYNIN, VP
MARIS, P
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[1] Institute for Theoretical Physics, NL-9747 AG Groningen
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10.1016/0370-2693(93)90061-L
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
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We study chiral symmetry breaking in quenched QED4, using a vertex ansatz recently proposed by Curtis and Pennington. Bifurcation analysis is employed to establish the existence of a critical coupling and to estimate its value. The main results are in qualitative agreement with the ladder approximation, the numerical changes being minor.
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